Curtiss Malting Company

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Curtiss Malting Company

Click for larger image. P-RS, Dennis Maher, Giles Kavanagh

Location

1100 Niagara Street LLC per city property viewer.
Giles Kavanagh per Buffalo News.

45,000 sf warehouse building.

Vacant and deteriorating, but under responsible ownership.

Built as the Curtiss Malting Company.
Was an Agway warehouse at one time.
Buffalo News:
- "The 1899 facility was one of the first in the country to harness electric power from Niagara Falls, using it to run a series of malting drums to process the malt.
- In 1911, the building was sold to the Fleischmann Co., a large multistate malting operation, until
- Prohibition caused the company in 1920 to become a farmers� cooperative grain warehouse, which it remained for 62 years.
- An unusual, square-shaped concrete grain elevator on the southeast side of the property stands as a testament to that period."

2014 - Site of a large "Buffalove" installation built as part of BYP's Valentine heart-bombing of worthwhile structures in need of attention.
2015 - A one story add-on structure to the front was removed.
- Per the owner, Giles Kavanagh: "Fret not. Original building is in surprisingly good shape. I own it. It would be demo'ed over my dead body."
- When asked about potential reuse: "Not sure what to do, but likely event hall, beer hall. Inside is a natural stage. Probably will be open to multiple functions: weddings, New Years, oktoberfests, concerts, theater, dance."